the stars closer?

Last year, I came across some very interesting photos from Saturn's orbit, showing the Alpha Centauri A and B stars closest to us.

*Alpha Centauri is actually a triple star system, it's as if our Sun has two additional satellites that glow. In the photo there should be a third one - Proxyma, but it is not visible, it is far away, very small and faint.

I found it strange that the distance between these stars is visible here, because from the ground, you need a telescope to see the difference between A and B, but here it can be seen with the naked eye, because everyone knows that the distance between the stars is huge.

*Alpha Centauri is considered by many to be just one star.

I did some searches and found out that the distance to Alpha Centauri is almost 300 AU (300 distances from the Earth to the Sun), and to Saturn is less than 10 AU. It doesn't take a great mathematician to figure out that something is wrong here.....

But I needed proof and only a couple days ago, I remembered this photo.

I came up with an experiment.

I drew a couple of dots on the wall with a pencil. One a little bigger and one smaller (like A and B), so that they would merge into one from the other end of the room and I started the experiment.

My room is very small, only 4 steps, so it was hard for me to measure the distance in 1/30, but I didn't need to, because I had to walk half of the room (that is 2 steps) to see about the same difference as in the photo.

hmm... so it turns out it's as if I had to virtually travel a distance of 150 AU in my room ^_^

or Saturn would be in the middle the Sun and Alpha Centauri.

That looks suspicious.

*I don't even take into account where Saturn was located relative to the line between the Sun and Alpha Centauri, but that's not important in this case.....